Facebooks Privacy Trainwreck

Boyd’s “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck” discusses the logic behind why many users were upset with Facebook’s launching a feature referred to as “News Feeds”. With this feature users would login and see updates of the actions, comments and forums their friends participated in and vice versa. Many users did not like the fact that others would automatically get these updates, “News Feeds” made them feel as if the lost a sense of privacy. Mark Zuckerberg’s stated that they were not making any “private” information public, the information shared on the “News Feed” was all ready public information and I completely agree with him. I am in no way a Facebook supporter, (in fact I find it quite annoying how many people have become Facebook “addicts”) but honestly the fcfat of the matter is “IF YOU DON’T WANT OTHERS TO KNOW, THEN DON’T PUT IT ON THE INTERNET!”